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February 22, 2015
Household Moving Tips: Garage Sale!
Moving all of your possessions out of your current home and into a new one is challenging and stressful enough - but put your delivery location a thousand miles away in a completely different state and region of the country and the stress factor multiplies. There's a really great way to make things ...
February 19, 2015
Budgeting for Your Auto Transport Experience
Shipping a car can be an expensive endeavor, depending on where you're shipping from and to, and most people are going to have to do some sort of budgeting in order to fit the cost into their financial plans. If you don't need to budget, great - you're a step ahead of the game. But for all you who d...
February 17, 2015
Auto Shipping FAQ: Do I Need to Have Personal Insurance?
One of the best things about shipping a vehicle is that it's pretty lax in terms of what you actually need to have on-hand when you ship it. Things like registration and insurance aren't as important as whether or not the car runs or if it'll fit on the truck - this is because car shippers haul cars...
February 15, 2015
Household Moving Terms: Non-Binding Estimate
In the household moving industry things are done a bit differently than the way they're done when you're shipping a car, namely when it comes to paying for the services that they provide. It's not that surprising, when you think about it; it's a lot more work to move an entire household's worth of t...
February 10, 2015
Auto Shipping FAQ: Can I Ship Any Type of Vehicle?
Here at American Auto Shipping you can get quotes to ship just about any vehicle from or to anywhere in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. We say that a lot, but it's absolutely true - if it rolls, brakes and steers, regardless of if it's running or not, we can get you free quotes to sh...
February 5, 2015
Why You Want to Avoid Cancelling an Auto Shipping Order
Shipping a car isn't like ordering fast food - a comparison you'll likely see more than once on our website, but one that's quite true nonetheless. It doesn't take a day to ship a car, usually it takes a week, and during that week you'll be either without a car at all or relying on public transporta...
February 3, 2015
Auto Shipping FAQ: Why Does Auto Transport Take So Long?
Transporting a vehicle is a time-consuming process. It can take literally weeks from the moment you book your order until the day your vehicle is delivered, and the process is hardly fun for anyone. But it's a necessary part of the world's economy, and you'd be surprised at just how many people are ...
February 2, 2015
Auto Transport Tips: Common First-Time Questions You Need to Ask
The auto transport industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the automotive world. More and more people are looking to have vehicles they buy or move transported, as opposed to driven, especially if the vehicle is hundreds or thousands of miles away. The rise of the internet has made this...
January 31, 2015
Car Shipping Services to Fresno, CA
Fresno is a city in as well as the county seat of Fresno County, in the U.S. state of California. Home to over 509,000 residents, Fresno is the fifth-largest city in the state of California, the largest inland city in the state as well as the 34th largest city by population in the entire nation. The...
January 30, 2015
Auto Shipping Glossary: Driveaway Shipping
Normally, vehicles are shipped on an open auto transport carrier, the standard method of shipping in the industry today, though open carriers are not the only type of car transport truck out there. There are several different types of carriers on the road today, open shippers enclosed shippers, even...
January 26, 2015
Auto Transport Tips: Preparing Your Vehicle For Shipment
There are a lot of different things that a vehicle owner who is trying to ship their vehicle needs to know before the carrier arrives to load the vehicle onto the truck needs to know - it's not just about getting a car loaded onto a truck. Okay, maybe it is, but there's some prepwork that you need t...
January 25, 2015
Household Moving Tips to Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is the largest city in as well as the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana. Home to over 820,000 residents in the city proper, Indianapolis is one of the fastest-growing areas in the entire American Midwest and currently anchors a metropolitan area home to over two million total residen...